Thank you Bogey's generation
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Good grief, young fella, did you even read the article? Young first time home owners are waiting longer to buy their first home because they are delaying marriage, having children, and settling in on a career. And that is my generation's fault because..... why??? And your generation is buying that first home at a price of 2.5 times their income, compared to my generation buying their first home at 1.7 times their income. That should tell you that my generation started out with an affordable starter home that we could afford and worked our way up instead of your "entitled" generation buying that nice brick home in your yuppy suburb that you really can't afford, all to impress your frat buddies. So go cry me a river!! My generation gave our kids (YOU!!) everything you wanted. That was our biggest mistake!!
That whole article went over your head. Not shocked. We had to wait longer because price of housing compared to income isn't at the same ratio it was in your day old timer. Youre saying the generation that didn't have anything to do with the housing crisis(not like the requirements got tougher to qualify after that did it?) is being irresponsible by waiting longer?
It's just rich that the generation that we know as the baby boomers can't see their faults.
It's just rich that the generation that we know as the baby boomers can't see their faults.
Not surprised you can only comprehend parts of the article that suit you. So you are saying that today young people are waiting longer to marry, have children, and settle in on a career solely because of housing prices??Really?? There's plenty of nice little houses in Ste Gen in nice neighborhoods in the $60-80K range that many have been raising families in for a long time that would debunk your "price of housing to income ratio" crap. Of course, you wouldn't impress the frat boys as much. But your entitled generation wants the big home, nice cars, and all the expensive toys right now by 30-35 years old, while your parent's generation had to work and save most of their lives to finally move to that nice home later in life. But of course, since your generation always has to put all blame on someone else, go ahead and blame my generation including your parents for the awful life we have made for you, you ungrateful twit!!
Nah I bring facts to the table you bring drama and nothing more than get off my lawn material. I get a kick out of YOUR entitled generation that raised mine running their mouth all the time. Thanks to my grandparents and your parents you were set up for life. You blew it. You went out and got greedy. Bought homes you couldn't afford. Again the recent housing crisis wasn't my generations problem as much as you apparently think it is. You trusted politicians with our money and you lost. YOU sent my classmates to war. You can preach Vietnam all you want. Didn't learn your lesson much did ya? I guess at least we didn't have the complete disrespect of the military yours portrayed.
You're part of the problem. You point fingers as if your generation is some shining standard. Hate to break it to you, it wasn't. You say my generation is entitled because we get everything? Is that fact or just another old man assumption because your life didn't turn out how you wanted it to?
As far as I can tell, all you have done is make **** harder for my generation to dig out of this hole. If a thank you is what you want for that, I guess.....thank you?
My parents were awesome, I doubt you were on their level. My wife and I live in a 1960 3 bedroom ranch home on 35 acres that I bought off my mom when my dad died. My ungrateful ass let her stay with my wife and I and our new born for three years(remember no basement). We live a relatively simple life. As do most people my age that I know. Because although there are plent of 60-80k houses, how many well paying jobs do you know of in Sainte Genevieve?(keep that previous percentage in your head)
You can take your assumptions and shove them where your head is.
You're part of the problem. You point fingers as if your generation is some shining standard. Hate to break it to you, it wasn't. You say my generation is entitled because we get everything? Is that fact or just another old man assumption because your life didn't turn out how you wanted it to?
As far as I can tell, all you have done is make **** harder for my generation to dig out of this hole. If a thank you is what you want for that, I guess.....thank you?
My parents were awesome, I doubt you were on their level. My wife and I live in a 1960 3 bedroom ranch home on 35 acres that I bought off my mom when my dad died. My ungrateful ass let her stay with my wife and I and our new born for three years(remember no basement). We live a relatively simple life. As do most people my age that I know. Because although there are plent of 60-80k houses, how many well paying jobs do you know of in Sainte Genevieve?(keep that previous percentage in your head)
You can take your assumptions and shove them where your head is.
LOL
1) I inherited a rocking chair and a tie pin from my parents. Really set me up for life.
2) None of my family or friends had homes foreclosed on. We knew to live within our means.
3) I trust no politician and sure as hell didn't trust them with my money. It is protected from vultures.
4) I opposed war in Iraq BECAUSE I learned from Vietnam. Thank your President Bush for that one.
5) I am personally responsible for housing crisis, Iraq war, national debt, and anything else you can think of that went wrong in past 40 years, but not your dear mommy and daddy because they are "awesome".Talk about having your head up your ass!!
Wisdom comes with age and you're still a wet behind the ears puppy, young man.
1) I inherited a rocking chair and a tie pin from my parents. Really set me up for life.
2) None of my family or friends had homes foreclosed on. We knew to live within our means.
3) I trust no politician and sure as hell didn't trust them with my money. It is protected from vultures.
4) I opposed war in Iraq BECAUSE I learned from Vietnam. Thank your President Bush for that one.
5) I am personally responsible for housing crisis, Iraq war, national debt, and anything else you can think of that went wrong in past 40 years, but not your dear mommy and daddy because they are "awesome".Talk about having your head up your ass!!
Wisdom comes with age and you're still a wet behind the ears puppy, young man.
Last time I check 320 M people can't live in ste Genevieve. Looking at median incomes and house prices/rents is much more instructive. There is something to be said that people today of all ages expect larger homes, which skews the data.
It is factual that the young today have had a little harder start. Some of it is due to their choices but there's plenty of good data that supports his position and not much that supports yours. Things like the median income declining, the unemployment rate by age, the impact on income of the Great Recession, higher student loans, and less opportunity for people without a college degree.
the only person i know who got foreclosed on was a boomer. The foreclosure crisis was driven by loans in the early to mid 2000s. thats boomers and gen X
We have had several periods of recessions - '69-70, '73-75, early 1980s, early 1990s, early 2000s. Those of us old enough to remember can remember the layoffs that came every few years, and the only jobs to be found were low paying with no benefits. I can remember the hurt on my dad's face when he would get laid off and not knowing how he was going to support us. We had student loan debts that we knew we had to repay without Uncle Sam bailing us out. You can try to rewrite history anyway you want, but Gen X has it no rougher than we did. I don't buy that today's generation has it harder or have a lower standard of living than we did. They are just spoiled.
Do you really believe what you write? You are not reading and comprehending what NM and I are trying to explain to you.
How are we spoiled? Just curious to see what gem you come up with. Is it anything other than opinion based and doesn't revolve around progression? If that is the case your generation was softer than a bag of marshmallows compared to the greatest generation.
It's also possible to believe some are entitled but also that they entered the world at a time when it was harder for them to get by than the prior generation. These aren't mutually exclusive concepts.
Just because Kenny and Neutron have an opinion, doesn't make it so.
BTW, Ken, you want to throw around things like "price of housing to income ratio" when I'll bet mommy gave you a sweet deal on the ranch house and 35 acres. Go cry somewhere else about housing costs, how hard it is for your generation, and how my generation has boot strapped you so bad and just give us a "Thank you" for someone from my generation for making your life so easy and giving you everything you have .
BTW, Ken, you want to throw around things like "price of housing to income ratio" when I'll bet mommy gave you a sweet deal on the ranch house and 35 acres. Go cry somewhere else about housing costs, how hard it is for your generation, and how my generation has boot strapped you so bad and just give us a "Thank you" for someone from my generation for making your life so easy and giving you everything you have .
It is hilarious when 20 and 30 something's think their lives were harder than the generation or two before them. You have to be $#!++:#% me.
1. Online college courses where groups of students are working together to insure they pass without actually learning anything.
2. Mortgage rates in the threes.
3. More exotic vacations than some of us can even imagine.
4. There is an app for everything.
5. Dvrs, online streaming, Netflix, etc these people have 15 different "favorite shows".
1. Online college courses where groups of students are working together to insure they pass without actually learning anything.
2. Mortgage rates in the threes.
3. More exotic vacations than some of us can even imagine.
4. There is an app for everything.
5. Dvrs, online streaming, Netflix, etc these people have 15 different "favorite shows".
I got a participation trophy in t-ball in the 1980s. This isn't as new as we think it is.
I'd separate what you are saying from what Kenny is saying.
Kenny is saying, the world is in crappier shape, which can make it harder for people to get by, especially people without an education.
You're saying, hey, look at all the ways the world has changed that are awesome. And that's true, too.
Do keep in mind that a lot of those changes are things which work well for people like me. Like, I can afford to go on an amazing vacation - I know a lot of people that can't do that. Mortgage rates are cheap, but that doesn't matter if you can't get a home loan because you took out 75k of student loans. Etc.
The foundation for all of those development s was layed by my generation and the one just ahead of mine. The progress made when I was coding from 1980-1995 made a lot of what we have today possible.
It is so much easier to write apps now.
You are welcome.
The progress that was made from 1980-1995 was built on the work of mathematicians post 1945.
You could make that argument about literally everything.
I would argue that programming languages are much more robust than they were in 1995.
